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New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced Yoshinobu Kanemaru will miss the upcoming Best of the Super Juniors tournament due to knee injury.

Young lion Yuya Uemura will take Kanemaru’s spot in the tournament.

The updated tournament schedule is:

November 15 in Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium, Aichi
• Master Wato vs. Yuya Uemura
• DOUKI vs. Robbie Eagles
• BUSHI vs. SHO
• El Desperado vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
• Hiromu Takahashi vs. Taiji Ishimori

November 18 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• BUSHI vs. Yuya Uemura
• Master Wato vs. Robbie Eagles
• DOUKI vs. SHO
• Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Taiji Ishimori
• El Desperado vs. Hiromu Takahashi

November 20 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• El Desperado vs. Yuya Uemura
• DOUKI vs. Taiji Ishimori
• Master Wato vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
• Robbie Eagles vs. SHO
• BUSHI vs. Hiromu Takahashi

November 23 in G Messa Gunma, Gunma
• Taiji Ishimori vs. Yuya Uemura
• BUSHI vs. Robbie Eagles
• DOUKI vs. Hiromu Takahashi
• Ryusuke Taguchi vs. SHO
• El Desperado vs. Master Wato

November 25 in Toki Messe, Niigata
• Hiromu Takahashi vs. Yuya Uemura
• DOUKI vs. Master Wato
• BUSHI vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
• Robbie Eagles vs. Taiji Ishimori
• El Desperado vs. SHO

November 29 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Yuya Uemura
• DOUKI vs. El Desperado
• Master Wato vs. SHO
• BUSHI vs. Taiji Ishimori
• Hiromu Takahashi vs. Robbie Eagles

December 2 in Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium, Osaka
• DOUKI vs. Yuya Uemura
• Robbie Eagles vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
• BUSHI vs. Master Wato
• El Desperado vs. Taiji Ishimori
• Hiromu Takahashi vs. SHO

December 5 in Sun Arena Sendai, Kagoshima
• SHO vs. Yuya Uemura
• BUSHI vs. DOUKI
• El Desperado vs. Robbie Eagles
• Master Wato vs. Taiji Ishimori
• Hiromu Takahashi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi

December 6 in Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka
• DOUKI vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
• Hiromu Takahashi vs. Master Wato
• SHO vs. Taiji Ishimori
• Robbie Eagles vs. Yuya Uemura
• BUSHI vs. El Desperado

The December 6 card will be determined based on tournament standings.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling held a show in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring today co-promoted with Active Advance Pro Wrestling.

The full results were:

• Drew Parker, Takuho Kato and Yuki Ishikawa def. Naka Shuma, Takuro Niki and Taylor Adams
• Chibayan and Kota Sekifuda def. Ayame Sasamura and Yuji Okabayashi
• Chicharito Shoki and Kengo Mashimo def. Kazuki Hashimoto and Kosuke Sato
• Yuya Aoki def. Tatsuya Hanami
• Kazmi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami def. Ayato Yoshida and Daiki Wakamatsu
• Tank Nagai def. Akira Hyodo

Big Japan will hold another show in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring tomorrow, although 2AW are not involved in any capacity.

The full card is:

• Kazuki Hashimoto and Masaki Morihiro vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami
• Hideyoshi Kamitani and Takuho Kato vs. Kosuke Sato and Yasufumi Nakanoue
• Deathmatch: Kankuro Hoshino and Masaya Takahashi
• Deathmatch: Toshiyuki Sakuda vs. Yuki Ishikawa
• Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu, Takayuki Ueki vs. Drew Parker, Kota Sekifuda and Yuji Okabayashi
• Akira Hyodo, Takuya Nomura and Yuya Aoki vs. Daichi Hashimoto, Daisuke Sekimoto and Ryuji Ito
• Deathmatch: Abdullah Kobayashi, Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto vs. Masaya Takahashi, Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda

The show will be Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda’s last appearance under contract with Big Japan.

However, Sakuda confirmed he and Ueki will continue to appear in Big Japan as freelancers on his blog, which can be read here.

Sakuda also debuted as Jun Kasai and Kenji Fukimoto’s mystery partner on Tuesday’s Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS show.

Big Japan has announced the full card for its November 26 show in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring.

The full card is:

• Kazuki Hashimoto and Yasufumi Nakanoue vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami
• Akira Hyodo and Takuho Kato vs. Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani
• Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and Ryuji Ito vs. Takuya Nomura, Yuji Okabayashi and Yuya Aoki
• Alejandro, Fuminori Abe and Yusuke Kodama vs. Drew Parker, Kosuke Sato and Kota Sekifuda
• Deathmatch: Abdullah Kobayashi and Minoru Fujita vs. Kankuro Hoshino and Masaya Takahashi
• Deathmatch: Isami Kodaka vs. Yuki Ishikawa

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling held a show in Shinjuku FACE today produced by DAMNATION.

The full results were:

• Chikara and Nobuhiro Shimatani def. Tsutomu Oosugi and Yasutaka Oosera
• Antonio Honda, Ryu Gouma and Yasu Urano def. El Lindaman, Mad Paulie and T-Hawk
• Amigo Suzuki def. Hiroshi Yamato
• Ryuichi Sekine and Tetsuya Endo def. Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu
• Soma Takao def. Yusuke Kubo
• Daisuke Sasaki and Shuji Ishikawa vs. Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuko Miyamoto – Time Limit Draw (30 minutes)

Daisuke Sasaki decided there were too many people called Daisuke in wrestling, so he challenged Daisuke Sekimoto to a loser loses their first name match. Thankfully, the match ended in a time limit draw.

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